AN OBTRUSIVE CHANDELIER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1711, 14 June 1884, Page 2

AN OBTRUSIVE CHANDELIER.

j- They havo an obstinate piece of stago property in a theatre in on'o of | our mining towns in the shape oi a ■stage chandelier.. The manager of the heatre bought it cheap during one of his tnp 3 East, and had it swung up above the centre of the town. The trouble is that the chandelier," bein° immovable,,has.to be cast'in every scene of every play thaf js put on at tliflthfiatro. Orcourse,'it is'allrigU and proper to'have a :;big "six-light gilded chandelier in a. scene representing a parlou./oi-banquet hall, but to have that same chandelier bob up in a weird : forest scence, or in a lowly garret, is provoking, to say the least. On the opemng : night the. first appearance of the .chandelier'.was hailed with screams of delight and approval by the audience. But in the'second act which was laid in a wild mountain pass,, with .snow;: and sleet and tbunderand lightning; the appearance of the chandelier .struck the audience as an intrusion* which Spoilt! the unity of the drama. Some of the boys didn't seem to cave so much, for they'had paid their nioney and wanted' all'the chandelier they could get,' especially as it had been billed by the management as one of tho chief attractions.' But in the next act, which represented a shipwreck on a desert island, the chandelier palled on the publirtaste; : and tho audience demanded that it be immediately suppressed. The manager was forced'to'come forward and' explain matters/ and finally succeeded in quieting the audience .by promising them thaf a local play-writer would write a play expressly for the chandelier, m which it would appear.in every act. h the' next aot the .chandelier put in a successful appearance in a scene representing an Indian camp.on the plains, and the' applause 'from tho exacting audience was spontaneous and Lemon.